The five had already handcuffed and robbed the autistic teenager, stuck a gun in his face and threatened to kill him and his family, the charges say.
Only after that, when they allegedly marched him to the bottom of a hill in St. Paul's Conway neighborhood and took turns socking him in the stomach, did the terrified 16-year-old, betrayed and beaten by people he thought wanted to be his friends, start to cry.
And that was only halfway through the robbery and beating endured by the teenager, identified in court papers only as C.M., and before he was shot twice in the head with a BB gun.
Autism or not. What makes people be so uncaring and cruel? Sad story. And now those kids are probably going to jail.
I just hope this helps them learn compassion somehow.
